The Cassini space probe returned a very interesting picture from its orbit around Saturn.

Giant space station poised to destroy Mimas, or harmless pockmarked moon? You be the judge.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on July 3, 2004, from a distance of 1.7 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase angle of about 102 degrees. The image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two to aid visibility.

punk

Phoenix, AZ

January 2004

JUL 28, 2004 04:53 PM

Dun dun dun, dun dun-dun, dun dun-dun....

MrStitches

Brooklyn, NY

November 2003

JUL 28, 2004 04:56 PM

Awesome.

nerdboy2345

Oak Lawn, IL

December 2002

JUL 28, 2004 04:58 PM

thats cool as hell

cxc496

Nazareth, PA

March 2004

JUL 28, 2004 05:00 PM

i think it's just a black and white pick of an olive

LightbulbJack

Lansing, MI

December 2003

JUL 28, 2004 05:02 PM

Thats no moon...

astrosaurus

Lake Elsinore, CA

OLD SKOOL

JUL 28, 2004 05:12 PM

I've said it before, I'll say it now, and I'll probably say it a few more hundred times before I die:

Outer space is awesome.

8bitbeta

Ocala, FL

February 2004

JUL 28, 2004 05:36 PM

yes! thats awesome.

_roy

Whittier, CA

October 2002

JUL 28, 2004 05:43 PM

IT'S A TRAP!

BobbySoAwesome

Canada

March 2004

JUL 28, 2004 05:44 PM

Definetly qualifies as SoAwesome. Lucas has some classified info he's not sharing.

Deerailed

I'm lost

January 2004

JUL 28, 2004 05:54 PM

Not only is that a space station, it appears to be within a few days striking distance to us Earthlings. Let us huddle in fear.

:: flash to a scene of Vader trying to get a coke from a vending machine on the Death Star ::

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN

February 2004

JUL 28, 2004 05:55 PM

the power to destroy planets is insignificant compared to the power of the force.

Scopitone

Irvine, CA

OLD SKOOL

JUL 28, 2004 05:58 PM

Looks like a tragically nippled breast to me.

PhantomVI

Chicago, IL

May 2003

JUL 28, 2004 06:04 PM

We must find R2-D2! Without the blueprints he holds, we'll never locate the ventilation shafts!

alpha_hazard

Fort Collins, CO

April 2004

JUL 28, 2004 06:30 PM

hehehe...look at the size of that thing...hehehe

Luke, at that speed do you think you can pull out in time?

Sorry...I'm so childish.

1_dying_wish

Oakland, CA

September 2002

JUL 28, 2004 07:02 PM

i can't shake him, i can't shake him!

Dr_Zoidberg

Raymore, MO

June 2004

JUL 28, 2004 07:20 PM

The moon IS Mimas, not the one to destroy Mimas. It is also the largest crater in relation to planet size in the solar system!

googused

Portland, OR

OLD SKOOL

JUL 28, 2004 07:24 PM

That's no moon...

walkswithbears

United Kingdom

March 2003

JUL 28, 2004 07:34 PM

repeat ad nauseum....

Kolic

Tulsa, OK

July 2004

JUL 28, 2004 07:35 PM

Now we need some nazi poster boy farm boy to save us, right?

Ya know...anyone ever realize that Luke was going to join the Imperial Academy before he ran into that trashcan and prissbot? What might have been, huh?

DeceptiviewFilm

Parlin, NJ

February 2004

JUL 28, 2004 07:51 PM

"Don't Be too Proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy the planet is insignificant next to the power of the force."

DeceptiviewFilm

Parlin, NJ

February 2004

JUL 28, 2004 07:53 PM

ikoL said:
Now we need some nazi poster boy farm boy to save us, right?

Ya know...anyone ever realize that Luke was going to join the Imperial Academy before he ran into that trashcan and prissbot? What might have been, huh?

yes we know. he could've been flying a walking death trap instead of a X Wing

randumb_thought

Lumberton, NC

February 2004

JUL 28, 2004 08:28 PM

LightbulbJack said:
Thats no moon...

god damnit, he beat me to it.

MonsieurFlamingo

I'm lost

July 2003

JUL 28, 2004 08:38 PM

Oh, fuck you all, you took all the good lines I could recall! Grr..

Now, I can't appear to be witty.

[Edited on Jul 28, 2004 8:40PM]

oninotaki

Ypsilanti, MI

March 2003

JUL 28, 2004 08:44 PM

That is the fucking shit!

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Whittier, CA

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Canada

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randumb_thought

Lumberton, NC

February 2004

JUL 28, 2004 08:28 PM

I'm lost

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